Had a blast this past weekend meeting some real cool fiber artists/spinners from eastern Iowa. In particuar I enjoyed meeting the wonderful writer of this fantastic farmblog! She drinks great beer, owns a cut-your-own flower farm, and loves many of the same things I do - local food, canning, spinning, and havin' fun with great folks.

In other news, I need to get back to blogging more regularly - been busy around here, but in a good way. :) We had our hard freeze the other night (and of course now the weather is gorgeous again.....grrrr) so the harvest is pretty much done. I canned 7 quarts of apple pie filling last night using this amazing recipe and now I'm on the hunt for more apples...